Last night, while doing another drive by, I noticed 7 or 8 large Hispanic males hanging around in front of the house drinking beer and hooping it up. Me and a new investigator got out of my car and stood directly across the street hoping to catch a glimpse of my guy. Shorty after we arrived a car pulled up and a female and male, who matched the description of my guy jumped out of the car. They were obviously drunk, staggering drunk.

I asked the new guy what he thought and, being new, wanted to approach the guy and attempt to arrest him. “Not a good idea” I told him, “let’s call the police”. I called San Jose Police dispatch and asked for assistance. The dispatcher told me to drive around the block and wait for an office to arrive. So we pulled around the corner and waited…

About 5 minutes later the female came stumbling around the corner and started checking us out. She wandered back and forth between my car and the corner, we could see she was concerned about our presence. This went on for maybe 5 or 10 minutes before she started yelling for someone. The name she was calling for was the same name as my defendant. Bingo! This is too good to be true. Is he really just going walk right up to us? Where’s the police? The girl was standing on the street corner when my guy comes walking up to her, he was agitateds and was waving his arms in a violent manner, shouting “Fuck off mother fuckers, I’m gonna kick your ass”. We just chuckled and watched as the female grabbed him and kept him him from approaching us. “Let him go”, I thought, “Please let him go so he can deliver himself to us”.

They turned and walked away from us but we could tell he wanted to confront us so I fired up my engine and started driving towards them. As we got close he made a half ass attempt to block my car buy was pulled back by his girlfriend. He was really drunk and really angry; not a big surprise.  As soon as we passed him I stopped the car and jumped out.  “Surprise!” His whole demeanor changed when he realized that he was getting arrested. Mr Badass was now crying like a baby, really.

Suddenly, all the guys that were hanging at his house started running towards us. Uh Oh! We need to get out of here. We shoved the defendant in the car and drove away, slowly. Just slow enough to keep them coming. Baiting them. Waiting for the police.  It worked. 5 or 6 San Jose cops saw the commotion and came flying down the street. Oops. You’re all in trouble now. I’ve never laughed so hard. You should have seen the expression on the punk’s faces. Anyway, it all ended well, no one got hurt and I got my guy.